Hello,

I got x2 80gig hard-drives on my home build, one system (obviously) and one just slave storage (not raid). I only have 2 gigs space left on main h/d, and all files backed up on slave.

I just bought a Seagate 160G drive with 8mb cache. Now here is my question, can I just ghost or mirror all of the data on the current master, and copy it onto new drive, and just swap it, without causing major problems. As I really don't want to do a fresh install right now, I stepped on the drivers disc for my mobo (d'oh), and frankly it's high time for a new build, so I'd rather wait and do it form scratch...

Advice appreciated!

Cheers,

Nick

 

You should have no problems with ghost, or mirror, but you will only see it as a 80 gig drive. so you will have to use partition magic to open out the whole drive for use.

 

Ghost it...from old partition to new disk.

You'll still be able to use the full 160gb even if you ghost from an 80gb drive

 

You shouldn't have to use Partition Magic - IIRC Ghost can do all this stuff.

From memory...
Ghost the partition of the master drive into an image on your current slave data disk.
Use Ghost tools to create a Ghost boot disk
Swap your old 80Gb master for the new drive
Boot with the ghost boot disk
Use Ghost to load "image to disk" then select the partition image you have on slave.
Select target as a single 160gb partition on the new hdd. As there is no partition it will give you the option as to the size of partition you want to create (which obviously has to be at least as big as the data within the image).

Hope this helps!
Joolz

 

You shouldn't even need to ghost to an image (though you can, of course)

Should be able to ghost directly from one drive to another.

 

I believe that Seagate should have a utility on their site which will sort it all out for you. Most of the drive producers do.